[Matheson] Ross Atkins will meet with the media at 3:00. This is the GM’s first group interview since Anthony Bass shared a video calling Target and Bud Light’s support of the LGBTQ2S+ community “demonic” and “evil”. Bass, for the record, has still not taken questions in a group setting.

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1. Please say something good Ross. Please.

2. Bass honestly needs to go. Given his additional piling-on of bullshit this morning, we can’t keep him in this city.

3. Atkins’ greatest weakness has always IMO been his ability to do PR so uh, grab your popcorn folks

4. He’s DFAing Bass at 3?

5. I feel like this isn’t going to pan out the way we want. Hoping to be wrong though. Would love to see Bass gone and never have to deal with him again.

6. I expect literally nothing to come of this lol

7. Let
   It
   Go

8. Need the beer and popcorn vendors to come by my office and set me up for this.

9. It would make my month if some other Blue Jay shared a video denouncing the recovery and reverse-engineering of alien spaceships as “demonic” and “evil”

10. I think Bass made bone-headed comments but people are overly prosecuting him. However he isn’t good enough to be this much of a headache. Just release him.

11. Trade bass. Fire bass. We have no need for bigoted assholes in Toronto.

12. Ross, I know you love corporate speak and deflecting but this is one time you have to be a solid human being and speak with real empathy.

    Good lord I hope he does or this is gonna ignite again and on Pride Weekend? Hoo boy!

13. It’s funny how some people come out with statements like Bass has on social media. Yet when actually put in a position where they have to explain exactly what they mean they run and hide. If you truly believe in something then you should have the guts to stand up and back up what you said. Otherwise you’re just another chicken shit like Bass who likes to shoot off his mouth and hides behind his religion to express his hate. Such a shallow excuse of a human.

14. Oh for fuck’s sakes. They’re scrambling before pride night because they know what’s going to happen if he pitches. This is all performative. I’m over it.

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16. Is the press conference being televised/streamed??

17. Anyone wanna give deets for peeps at work

18. I’m sorry is Anthony going to show up and **actually answer questions** instead of getting his daddy to come speak for him?! Atkins wants so badly for us to forgive this 35-year-old man who doesn’t even have the balls to face the media?

19. honestly if bass is still on the team thru pride weekend I’m gonna take a break for a bit. I’d theoretically get it even if I was furious if he was just SO good that you cant justify dropping him for being a hateful asshole

    but hes not even fucking any good and he is NOT important to the team. wtf are the jays doing here. kick him off the tour doug!

20. Alrighty then…so literally nothing at all about anything.

21. Trade him to the Dodgers, he can hang out with Kershaw and they can talk about how persecuted they feel as Christians.